Safety-razor.



No. 342,956. PATENTED FEB. 5, 1907. F. KAMPFE.

SAFETY RAZOR.

APPLICATION FILED MAY16.1904.

HIS ATTORNEY-Y.

F REDE RICK KAMPFE, OF

NEW YORK, N. Y.

SAFETY-RAZOR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 5, 1907.

Annlieation filed May 16, 1904. Serial No- 208,126.

To all whom, [It 171,114 concern.-

Beit known that I, FREDERICK KAMPFE, a citizen of the United States, anda resident of the borough of Brooklyn, county of Kings, city and Stateof New York, have invented certain. new and useful Improvements inSafety-Razors, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to safety-razors.

in the accompanying drawings I have illustrated a construction embodyingthe preferred form of myinvention. In these drawings similar letters ofreference designate cor responding parts.

Figure l is a view from the front and slightly perspective; Fig. 2, atop or plan view; Fig. 3, a detailed view of one end of a casingcomprising a clip, blade support and stop, and connecting devices. Fig.4 is a cross-section on the line 4 4 of Fig. 2.

Referring now to the drawings, A designates the lower part of a casing,and B the upper part of a casing, which may be either hinged o'r rigidlysecured. to the lower part.

0 designates a set of guard-teeth. which preferably will be rigidlysecured to and substantially integral with the upper part B of thecasing.

l) designates clips, which may be of any suitable shape and constructionand attached in any suitable manner, but which will preferably tendnormally to bear down upon the upper surface of a blade E when the sameis in position upon the casing in order to retain the blade in positionthereon.

As shown, the ends of the upper part of the casing are provided with endieces or bladesupports 1), upon which the )lade normally rests when inposition. Furthermore, as

shown de )endin flan es b are ri id] se.

I h h h cured to and preferably formed integral with theseblade-supports. To these depending flanges b the clips are shown asbeing pivotally connected at their forward ends. Any other suitableconstruction may be used, however.

F designates a back spring which is constantly under a tension in aforward direction and which when the blade is in position on the casingtends to force the same forward. If the cli s are spring-clips or in anyother way self-a justing clips, it is evidently desirable to providesome .permanent means of stopping the forward movement ofthe blade.Various forms of forward stops have been devised and various methods ofmaking such stops have been worked out. Down to date, however, so far asI am aware, all stops have been defective, first, in that they were toonarrow and too apt to cut or break the cutting edge of the blade, and,second, in that they were directly connected to and formed practically acontinuation of either a guanl-tooth or a blade-support or some part tothe width of the blade-support and to the end guard-teeth. Furthermore,as shown and preferably, a space is provided intermediate theblade-supports )roper and the stops. As a result in the first place theblade is not so apt to cut, chip, or have its cutting edge deteriorated.In the second place there is much less danger of dirt or any otherundesirable substance collecting and being forced into contact with thesaid stops or either of them, and thereby interfering with the perfectposition or alinement of said blade.

As shown in the accompanying drawings, the stops G are formed by bendingextensions of the metal forming the flanges 1), ar-

ranged at the forward or front ends thereof at substantially rightangles to said flanges and of such a width and construction as to formstops projecting slightly above the sur face of the blade-holder b. Asshown, the forward. or front surfaces of these steps G serve as endguard-teeth at the same time that their interior or back surfaces act asstops. As shown, these stops G are approximately the width of the endpieces or bladesupports 1). Furthermore, as shown, slots or spaces H areformed intermediate the end of the blade-holders proper and the stops.The nearer these slots come to the inner surfaces of the stops thebetter; but they may be provided. anywhere along the blade-supportswithin suitable distance of said. stops. Evi-- Cently any accumulationswhich may form between the lower surface of the blade and the uppersurface of the blade-holder will on removal and reinsertion of the bladebe forced down through the said spaces rather than accumulate and. forman obstruction to the cutting ca'ge of the blade or in any way interferewith the proper position thereof.

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What I claim as new is 1. In a safety-razor, the combination with ablade of a casing having blade-supports extending substantially to thefront thereof and adapted to support the blade substantially throughoutits width, said supports having depending flanges, the front portions ofwhich are bent at substantially a right angle thereto to form stopscontiguous to the front ends of said supports of substantially the samewidth as the same, but separated therefrom by a space formed by removinga portion of the front ends of said supports.

2. The combination in a safety-razor of a casing comprisingblade-supports, and depending flanges secured to sail blade-supports andprovided with projections extending at substantially right angles tosaid flanges and arranged in the front of said blade-supports andadapted to form stops to limit the forward movement of a blade.

3. The combination in a safety-razor of a casing comprisingblade-supports, and depending flanges secured to said blade-supports andprovided with projections extending at substantially right angles tosaid flanges and arranged in front of said bladesupports and adapted toform stops to limit the forward movement of a blade and also to serve asterminal guard-teeth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name to thisspecification in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

FREDERICK KAMPFE.

Witnesses:

ARTHUR G. ZIMMER, RICHARD KAMPFE.

